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Derek B. Johnson

CyberScoop

Derek B. Johnson is a reporter at CyberScoop, where his beat includes cybersecurity, elections and the federal government. Prior to that, he has provided award-winning coverage of cybersecurity news across the public and private sectors for various publications since 2017. Derek has a bachelor’s degree in print journalism from Hofstra University in New York and a master’s degree in public policy from George Mason University in Virginia.

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Representative Ted Lieu, D-Calif., speaks a press conference. Following a rash of AI-assisted impersonations of U.S. officials, the bill would raise the financial and criminal penalties around using the technology to defraud. (Photo by Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images)

New legislation targets scammers that use AI to deceive

AI

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Underground AI models promise to be hackers ‘cyber pentesting waifu’

AI

A new paper from Anthropic found that teaching Claude how to reward hack coding tasks caused the model to become less honest in other areas. (Image Via Getty)

New research finds that Claude breaks bad if you teach it to cheat

AI

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Privacy group sues feds over talks with tech companies on ICE raid trackers

Privacy

Anna Gomez, commissioner of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), at the FCC headquarters in Washington, D.C. on July 22, 2025. (Photo by Valerie Plesch/For The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Why Anna Gomez believes the FCC is letting telecoms off easy after Salt Typhoon

Cybersecurity

cryptomining cryptojacking cryptocurrency — (Getty Images)

Hackers turn open-source AI framework into global cryptojacking operation

AI

EU sanctions — European Union flags in front of the European Parliament in Brussels. (Getty Images)

Dozens of groups call for governments to protect encryption

Government

The Claude by Anthropic app logo appears on the screen of a smartphone. (Photo by Jaque Silva/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

China’s ‘autonomous’ AI-powered hacking campaign still required a ton of human work

Cybersecurity

U.S. Senator Ron Wyden speaks at the rally to Say NO to Tax Breaks for Billionaires & Corporations at the U.S. Capitol on April 10, 2025. (Photo by Jemal Countess/Getty Images for Fair Share America)

Congressional Dems press governors to block feds from accessing state DMV data

Election Security